Ban new wind turbines? Not if the bar for declaring them safe is impossibly high
Mar 29, 2016 05:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The debate about wind farms is clearly not over yet. Last week Australias National Heath and Medical Research Council awarded A$3.3 million to fund two new health studies: one to measure the effect of infrasound on sleep...
How eye tracking gives players a new experience in video games
Mar 29, 2016 05:00 am UTC| Technology
Tracking peoples eye movements is a concept that for a long time has captured peoples imagination. More often than not, the technology has been depicted as part of rather dystopian futures: in the movie Minority Report,...
If we don't own our genes, what protects study subjects in genetic research?
Mar 28, 2016 10:45 am UTC| Technology
On February 25, the White House hosted a forum on the National Institute of Healths Precision Medicine Initiative. This is an ambitious research study that aims to develop targeted drugs and treatments that would vary from...
Athletes look for an edge in a new place: virtual reality
Mar 28, 2016 10:38 am UTC| Sports Technology Entertainment
Virtual reality (VR) appears ready to take the entertainment world by storm in 2016. In addition to the much-hyped Oculus Rift, major corporations such as Facebook, Sony and Samsung are poised to release high-quality VR...
Microsoft's racist chatbot Tay highlights how far AI is from being truly intelligent
Mar 28, 2016 01:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
It has been a nightmare of a PR week for Microsoft. It started with the head of Microsofts Xbox division, Phil Spencer, having to apologise for having scantily clad female dancers dressed as school girls at a party thrown...
Can we replace politicians with robots?
Mar 28, 2016 01:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
If you had the opportunity to vote for a politician you totally trusted, who you were sure had no hidden agendas and who would truly represent the electorates views, you would, right? What if that politician was a...
Scientists turn to 3D printing, digital simulations to treat heart disease
Mar 26, 2016 06:30 am UTC| Science Technology
My mother bought her first GPS in the 1990s. A few months later, she came home angry because it had directed her to the wrong side of the city, making her an hour late. Thats too bad, I said, and we went on with our lives....